Re: Error handling

2000-08-09 Thread Peter Bevan
Timeouts, shouldn't be reliant on UNIX. (Although I dont think they should be in the language eigther. A system is easily developed using threads. something which I hope to develop when perl6 is ready...) I don't understand this paragraph. As it stands, if you want to have a timeout

Fw: println() ... printbr()

2000-08-09 Thread Peter Bevan
- Original Message - From: "Peter Bevan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "raptor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:05 AM Subject: Re: println() ... printbr() I actually saw this in the newsgroups and thought it was a neat idea. What about

wildcard includes

2000-08-08 Thread Peter Bevan
Just a thought, but I think it woul be a good idea to include the 'java-esqe' practice of including packages via foo.barr.* or in Perl's case Foo::Bar::* (assume that the module include syntax remains the same)... I can see that in the case of some module directories, where the modules are

Error handling

2000-08-08 Thread Peter Bevan
I started writing this mail by asking: Does anyone else agree that perl should have support for (but not forcefully) error handling... maybe a little like Java's?? I know that sort of thing can be acheived with eval(), but surely Which is as far as I got, because something new has